(06-06-2025, 12:00 PM)dashstofsk wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Really? It takes 36000 words and 226 pages to write something nasty about a Duke?
Why not? An exhaustive list of 226 crimes and misdeeds.
I'm not arguing for any specific nature of the text, as long as the circumstances dictated that it shouldn't be traceable to its author or the scribe.
(06-06-2025, 12:00 PM)dashstofsk wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.There were many herbal manuscripts at that period. Many were freely available and hardly likely to have anything so dangerous to society that they would have to be banned. Was it really necessary to have yet another herbal manuscript and for this one to be made unreadable?
It depends. If it is indeed talking about actual plants (which I'm not sure of), a medieval PiHKAL (not an endorsement) would be a good candidate.
(06-06-2025, 12:00 PM)dashstofsk wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Not so. The writing of hands 1, 2, 3 are all distinct. Even I who am not a trained handwritingologist can see that the writing in quires 1, 13, 20 are different.
Handwriting is different. Whether it belongs to the same hand, I can't tell. And I'm not sure how anyone can tell really, given we know nothing about the circumstances. I think most people can easily mimic several different handwriting styles.